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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I applaud people for not having kids when they know they don't want them. I teach a lot of students whose parents clearly don't want them and it is heartbreaking.[/quote]

Off topic - but how do you know their parents don't want them? Is it bc parents are jetting off places leaving kids to raise themselves -- which is kind of an extreme and I doubt you see that all the time -- or are there other more subtle signs??[/quote]

Seriously?  "Jetting off"?  No, that's not quite it.  Teachers see all kinds of neglect and abuse.  Even the parents' early interaction with the teacher (if there even is any) can tip us off to how they feel about their kid.[/quote]

I am the teacher who posted first. I teach in a Title One school and there are many ways to tell the kids are unwanted. At dismissal the other day, I leaned out my window because I heard someone screaming and heard, "Why are you wearing that? You look like a piece of trash! Get away from me. I don't want to be near trash!" It was a mom screaming at her 2nd/3rd grade DD for wearing a not so flattering uniform skirt (it looked a bit small and tight for her). Yeah, if she screams at her kid like that in public, God only knows what home is like. Another example from the last parent/teacher conference day. I had one of my students show up without a parent. I asked her if her mom/dad/grandparent, etc was coming and she said no. She said her mom told her to get out of the house and go to school. She said she told her mom there was no school due to conferences. She said her mom read the conference request form and threw it away and said she wasn't going in to school for "any reason." I know she said this because that is what she says when I call her myself. So the little girl hung out at school with me for a while cutting up laminating and playing teacher. She is 7. [/quote]

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